[…] sell as when it was offered as world revolution. Notes 1 This, presumably, is the ‘real internationalism’ so often referred to but hardly ever defined by the Labour left. On this see the examples given in Lobster 33 pp.2/3. 2 If the American anti-globalisation left could hold its collective nose long enough to actually […]
[…] Conservative Philosophy Group. During his famous weekend at Mohammed Al-Fayed’s Paris Ritz, the only call back to the UK that Aitken made was a lengthy exchange with Labour left-wing MP Diane Abbott, at her home in Hackney – an odd call for the broker of a big arms deal to make. All these items […]
[…] Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and the Christian People’s Alliance all support that call for a ban on ‘manipulation weapons’. But the British government, formed by the Labour Party’s leader in Parliament, Prime Minister Tony Blair, has stubbornly refused to adopt a policy of banning manipulation weapons. So has the lower house of the […]
[…] to the Birmingham bombings. It is a devastating expose of an intelligence system out of control and outside the state system. Talk of democratic accountability from the Labour Party is a sick joke when one reads what took place when they were in power. Both of the above have good appendices (including a long […]
[…] within the Conservative Party, the security and intelligence services, the City of London and the Bank of England and large-scale industry. Together with a handful of renegade Labour M.Ps like Richard Stokes, they might have formed a National Government committed to a non-aggression pact with Germany and the pursuit of a managed capitalism at […]
[…] the book is not terribly interesting. Part of it is Mayhew’s memories of his struggle with the CP front groups – the friendship societies – in the 1950s, and the rest is fragmented memories of his increasing dissatisfaction with the Labour Party and his eventual defection to the Liberal Party and thence into the SDP.
[…] the broadcasting regulations – yet another falsehood.’ I have no sympathy for Robin Cook who has turned out to be at least as useless as any other Labour Minister, but readers of this column may remember that in issue 36 I described how Pilger had sent me a long letter and demanded I publish […]
[…] about what would be the next story to be leaked, scandal to be revealed, personality to be defamed, that was going to be another blow to the Labour Government. Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay have sought to unravel the events which took place at that time. They suggest that it was all part of […]
[…] about what would be the next story to be leaked, scandal to be revealed, personality to be defamed, that was going to be another blow to the Labour Government. Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay have sought to unravel the events which took place at that time. They suggest that it was all part of […]
[PDF file]: […] that underpin the Coalition? We might normally expect Her Majesty’s Opposition to have something – substantial – to say. But, apart from occasional moments of denial, the Labour Party position appears to be that it accepts the general assumptions made by the new government and would pursue broadly similar policies – but would either […]
